4 Publishers That Killed Their Comment Sections in 2014

By: Ricardo Bilton | Digiday

This has been a rough year for the comment section. While comment sections have always had a reputation for being home to trolls and vitriol instead of real conversation, publishers are finding it increasingly difficult to justify keeping them around these days now that most readers are having conversations on Twitter and Facebook. And for an growing number of publishers, they just aren’t worth the time and effort needed to police them.